Word: underworlds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Second Concerto proves how well he has succeeded. Compounded of powerful short phrases, punchy accents and a kaleidoscopic array of rhythms, it motors through three movements and 22 minutes like an Orpheus in the underworld. The brilliant dialogue achieved by American Pianist Gary Graffman and Erich Leinsdorf's Boston Symphony showed that the trip was definitely worth the effort. "The simple fact," said Graffman, "is that Ben has written a major piano concerto, which extremely few people have done in the second half of the 20th century." With their hearty applause, Boston's audience agreed...
Mephistopheles (played by Andrea Teuber '64) begs Faustus to stay away from the underworld, but Mephistopheles is such a stoic sufferer that he doesn't succeed in convincing Faustus that hell is really that awful. He does convince us, however, provided we can believe that someone could keep so quiet about his misery...
...federal law has required gamblers to register with the Internal Revenue Service, buy a $50 gambling-tax stamp, and pay a 10% excise tax on their annual gross bets. Another law, passed in 1934, called for the taxation and registration of the manufacture, transfer or possession of such underworld weapons as sawed-off shotguns and machine guns. Last week, in the latest of several decisions extending the protection of the Fifth Amendment, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the two laws on grounds that they require persons to give information to the Government that could eventually be self-incriminating...
...growing rapidly. Last week police in Manhattan were busy wrapping up a gang that had defrauded Diners Club of at least $350,000. The gang, which had Mafia links, had stolen hundreds of blank Diners Club cards, impressed legitimate cardholders' names on them, and sold them to various underworld figures complete with such forged subsidiary identification as driver's licenses.* Gang members then traveled, ate, and charged lavishly, using the cards. Even when they are not liable, issuing companies almost always assume the financial burden of such fraud to maintain good relations with stores, hotels and restaurants...
Running two hours and 40 minutes, The Comedians has everything but economy, and Director Peter Glenville has tarried with a story that might have been twice as good at half the length. Unlike the novel, in which Greene's obsessive concern with man kind's spiritual underworld is subdued, his scenario seems as overtly moralistic as a passion play...